Posts

Showing posts from June, 2008

Grids are Dead! Or are they?

Grids are Dead! Or are they? By Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA; Duke University. Published in GridToday, June 16, 2008. See also one of my previous posts: " The End of Grid Computing? " from October 2007.

How to securely connect to the BGU from Linux

Image
The following instructions apply for connecting from outside the campus: Step 1: VPN access: Install CheckPoint SNX VPN tool ( S SL N etwork e X tender) for Linux. ( the current version I installed works with OpenSuse 10.3 but crashes for Fedora core 9 ) telzur@gtz2:~> snx -s vpn.bgu.ac.il -u username@vpn then provide your PIN and the Secure-ID code. Step 2: Connect to the Windows terminal server using remote-desktop: telzur@gtz2:~> rdesktop -u user-name -d group-of-users remote-host.bgu.ac.il and you will get this window to login: